A JavaScript OS For The ESP32

Given the unimaginable energy of contemporary microcontrollers, we’ve seen fairly a couple of makes an attempt to show them into extra common goal computer systems through the years. KryonOS from [Haris] is the most recent, and it takes a barely totally different path from the norm in that it’s a JavaScript primarily based working system for the ESP32.

It takes the type of an OS with a easy GUI and graphics library, and a built-in JavaScript runtime interpreter. It runs on all kinds of ESP32 boards with screens, together with the ever-present Cheap Yellow Display. It has full entry to the SD card filesystem, and an API for utilizing the {hardware}. Perhaps most curiously it has an app retailer for downloadable software program, which instantly reminds us of Europe’s Badge.Team. Their SHA2017 badge spawned a succession of gadgets that continues to at the present time, and provided the same expertise utilizing Python.

We like this venture, and assume it has potential because of the ease of JavaScript improvement for therefore many individuals used to working with the online. There was a time when Python working on microcontrollers sounded fairly far fetched, and look the place we are actually.